Of Mice and Men 🐭

George

• "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world."

• "I think I knowed from the very first. I think I knowed we’d never do her."

• "Get 'im, Lennie. Don’t let him do it."

• “I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now.”

• “I could get along so easy if i didnt have you on my tail”

Lennie

• "I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you."

• "Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water."

• "I didn’t mean no harm, George. Honest I didn’t."

• “Why do you got to get killed? You ain't so little as mice.”

Curley’s wife

• "I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely."

• "Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes."

• "You know what I could do to you if you open your trap?"

• "Her body flopped like a fish."

• “I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her. You leave her be.”

Crooks

• "A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody."

• "I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse."

• “If I say something, why it’s just a n* sayin’ it.”

• “Crooks had reduced himself to nothing.”

Candy

• "I ought to of shot that dog myself."

• "They’ll can me purty soon."

• "S’pose I went in with you guys."

• “You seen what they done to my dog tonight?”

Slim

• "He moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen."

• "His word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love."

• "You hadda, George. I swear you hadda."

• “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

Curley

• "He's alla time picking scraps with big guys."

• "Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys."

• "What the hell you laughin’ at?"

• “I'm gonna get him. I'm going for my shotgun.”

Power

“You keep your place then, N*.”

"They’ll can me purty soon."

“If I say something, why it’s just a n* sayin’ it.”

“S’pose George don’t come back no more.”

Loneliness

“A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.”

“I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely.”

“Guys like us…are the loneliest guys in the world.”

“They left all the weak ones here.”

Friendship

“With us it ain’t like that. We got a future.”

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you.”

“You hadda, George. I swear you hadda.”

“Ain’t many guys travel around together.”

American dream

"Tell me about the rabbits, George."

“An’ live off the fatta the lan’.”

“Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.”

“I think I knowed we’d never do her.”